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Blog Commenting: Do It Right!

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

I have to post this, I wasn’t planning on making a post but I’ve just received another couple of spammy comments and thought I’d share my thoughts.

First of all, blog commenting is great! I love it, and you should too. If done right you then it’s a win-win situation for both you and the bloggers who’s blogs you comment on.

But it’s not done right, not by a long shot. I had a blog comment today for “latin American commerce”, what does that have to do with my site?

The problem is the ease of access to automated software that lets you find blogs to comment on such as Comment Kahuna. Don’t get me wrong, I love that program, but I wish the retards would stop getting ahold of it.

The Wrong Way: What Will Happen?

This is what will happen if you do blog commenting like an idiot.

I’ll receive your blog comment and then click on the “spam” button.
Lots of other bloggers will also receive your comment and click the “spam” button.
You’ll now show up as a spammer and Aksimet will automatically delete your comments for me.
You will die, alone and afraid with no one to care for your sick dog.

How Do You Do Blog Commenting Then?

Like so…

Find blogs that are in your niche instead of spamming every blog you can think of.
Do not include a link to your site. If you want some link love then you’ll get it from the URL section of the comment box. Posting links (especially irrelevent links) will get you put in the spam queue faster than you can say, “spam and eggs for breakfast”.
Make sense. Don’t write some random, generic crap. Instead, look at the post and genuinely share your opinion. Disagree, agree, whatever. Just don’t put, “Nice article, check out my link.”

That’s it for now. Some more common sense goodness may follow at some indeterminate time.

Don’t get your hopes up.

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Don’t Post Unless You Have Something Interesting To Say

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

I don’t post very often on this blog, and for a good reason: I just don’t have anything interesting to say.

Sometimes I can post every day for a few days because my mind is full of ideas, and other times it’s weeks and I don’t write. I don’t see the point in writing filler content just to make it look like I know what I’m talking about.

On the flip side, this isn’t how I run the rest of my blogs. This is an internet marketing blog, and there are many people out there who have a lot more juicy information to hand out than I do.

But on the blogs that I do outside of this niche, I try and follow the blogger rule of doing X amount of posts per week. I make sure that I have something interesting to say.

I guess when I think about it, the reason for this is that my other blogs are all about making money. If I stop posting then potentially my income goes down, whereas this blog doesn’t affect my income in the slightest.

That’s why all these make money online bloggers come out with so much crap on a regular basis, they just need to say something so that they can have an excuse to sell you yet another crappy ebook.

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Building a Network of Blogs

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

For all my “internet marketing ramblings”, I don’t really give any information on it. There’s a good reason for this. I don’t claim to be a guru, or know that much about internet marketing. Nor do I claim to be earning lots of cash, because I’m not.

This blog is here to share my experience of making money online. I hope that it’ll be an inspiration to other noobs, and that one day people will look back through the archives here and think, “this is how it all started”. One day I will be able to give advice, and great tips. But right now I’m concentrating on using those tips for my own benefit until I can get something to work.

What I will share with you is advice that I pick along the way. So this post is about building up a network. In a previous post I mentioned the importance of content, and how you need to just keep on creating content. I think that this is one surefire way of making money online.

No, it isn’t perhaps the best way, or the most intelligent way.

But it is one of the easiest ways, if you follow the right advice. Right now, I’m building up a network of blogs. I call it a network, but really the only thing these blogs have in common with each other is that they’re blogs.

I’m writing 2,500 words of content a day as I take part in the WebWriMo challenge, but I plan on continuing at this pace even when I’ve finished the challenge. At this rate, I can get a new blog up and running with all the content it needs (time stamped of course so that it has fresh new content each day) as well as keep writing for the other blogs I’ve already started.

This is only one of the things I’m involved in, but I hope that in 6 months time I can say that I have a few blogs to my name. Each blog can be developed in it’s own way, and be promoted into a profitable site. If not, well I can always sell them.

I think that there is something to be said for having “online real estate”. That is, online properties that you have created that continue to grow even if you’re not actively promoting them. If I want to take a break from blogging, all I have to do is stop making new blogs and have a good long writing session to give me enough content to last a few weeks for all my blogs.

And in that time the blogs will continue to grow and become more popular by themselves, providing I’ve done enough work in beforehand to get them to that stage.

Even if I don’t make a whole load of cash from this idea, I will have some kind of audience around each of sites as well as linking power. There is definitely power in numbers in this game, even if I only have 10 medium sized blogs, that’s still a way for me to break into whatever niche those blogs are in if I decide to at some point in the future when I get the skills.

So my message to you today is to get building. Build sites, build content. Content never gets old. The great thing is that even if you’re not a great marketer right now, one day you will be. And you’ll look back on the sites you’ve made that will be sitting with page rank, links, and some amount of a readership and think, “Damn, I can market the hell out of these!”